Links for 2007-08-14

Posted August 14, 2007 1:43 AM.

• The Google Health Advertising Blog asks people in the health industry, "Does negative press make you Sicko?" This has been around for a while, but still it's weird and creepy. Uncomfortable with debate and criticism? Advertise your way out of it! And with no admission anywhere that you're doing something dubious...
• The lovely Paul A. Young of ridiculously awesome chocolate fame has a range of videos on Brightcove explaining how to appreciate and use chocolate... It's pretty ridiculously fascinating stuff. Ways to check how good chocolate is by snapping it and listening to the sound, by allowing it to melt in the mouth, by crunching it down. Makes me wish I can smell.
• SEO Blogs like Sitevisibility really freak me out... This is a big post about Jason Calacanis and how he said SEO was crap but is apparently a god anyway because he gets traffic to his sites. Wha?! Who are these bloody people?!
• The call for participation for ETech 2008 looks set to try and get the vision thing back... I hope it works. ETech is one of those most fickle and confusing of events. It's not quite what it says on the tin and yet at times--apparently randomly--it has been mind-blowingly awesome...
• Biddulph pointed me towards Echocrome, a super freaky Escher like game that works on the principle that if you can used isometric flattened perspectives to make something look possible, then suddenly it is possible... Difficult to explain. Watch the totally astonishing video and then wonder to yourself if you'd have the patience to play it or if you'd sit there swearing and wanting to kill the creators within ten minutes of purchase.
• Lunatic toothbrush has a weird little thing at the back that redirects water from the tap into your mouth for rinsing... It's the future, you see. This is an innovation that I suspect may make it into quirky production toothbrushes but will probably never make any sense for real actual like people or whatever.
• Top 10 UK dotcoms to watch as captured by Guardian Unlimited (not sure I understand why they hide half of their bloody articles with javascript though) Nice to see the cool people from Dopplr on the list. Nicer still to see the Moo chaps. Big fans of both. Many of the other ones are new to me.
• Awesome Faceball gallery on Wired.com includes pictures by yours truly... Even a couple of lame quotes as well. Weird thing, faceball.